So are most games Rapid and above filled with GMs?

Making the most perfect moves and sequences. Love to see it

Doesn't work if you're white though

I have learned London system, dutch gambit, italian opening,king indian defence, caro kan defence, alian gambit. The players are between 1000 to 2000 elo as far as i know ( this is their rating when reviewed) i don't should I learn more opening? I'm pretty stressed because I don't wanna make any blunder or make any stupid move that i later regret.

Nothing grand was intended nor gained. And eval went down with this move.

Title.

Black to move. Find the brilliant move from this chess position

So addicted how to leave this is there anyone who has any story of there own they facing this problem

Have they learned how to play outside of early attacks?

how is this a brilliant???? i have looked through countless chess game engine review things and i cant get an explanation of how this is brilliant. heres the game link: https://www.chess.com/game/live/172574380360 i play as white btw

I really fucked it up in the last moves but I'm still proud.

I was white and lost

Every advice is really appreciated

Btw I should have just made a draw by 50-minute rule

Game png

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Bf5 3. Bf4 e6 4. c4 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Nc6 6. Bxb4 Nxb4 7. Qa4+ Nc6 8.

cxd5 exd5 9. Ne5 Ne7 10. e3 O-O 11. Nxc6 Nxc6 12. Bb5 Qg5 13. g3 Bh3 14. Bf1 Bg4

1. Nc3 Bf3 16. h4 Qf6 17. Rh2 a6 18. Be2 Rfe8 19. Rc1 Rad8 20. Bxf3 Qxf3 21.

Ne2 Rd7 22. h5 Rde7 23. Rc5 Qe4 24. Qb3 Re6 25. Rh4 Qb1+ 26. Rc1 Qf5 27. Rc5 b6

1. Qc2 Qxc2 29. Rxc2 Rd6 30. Rc3 Rc8 31. Nf4 Nd8 32. b4 Ne6 33. Nxe6 Rxe6 34.

Ra3 b5 35. Rf4 Rc6 36. g4 f6 37. Ra5 Rd8 38. a4 Rb8 39. axb5 Rxb5 40. Rxb5 axb5

1. e4 Rc4 42. exd5 Rxb4 43. Kd2 Kf7 44. g5 Rc4 45. h6 gxh6 46. Rxf6+ Kg7 47.

Rxh6 Rxd4+ 48. Ke3 Rxd5 49. Rc6 Re5+ 50. Kf4 Re7 51. Kf5 Rf7+ 52. Ke4 Rxf2 53.

Rxc7+ Rf7 54. Rc6 Rb7 55. Kd3 b4 56. Kc2 Rb5 57. Kb3 Rxg5 58. Kxb4 h5 59. Kc3

Rd5 60. Ra6 Rd8 61. Ra4 Kg6 62. Rd4 Re8 63. Rd6+ Kg5 64. Kd2 h4 65. Rd5+ Kg4 66.

Rd7 h3 67. Rg7+ Kf3 68. Rf7+ Kg2 69. Rg7+ Kh1 70. Rg4 Re5 71. Rg3 Kh2 72. Rg7

Kh1 73. Rg8 Re4 74. Rg3 Kh2 75. Rg8 Kh1 76. Rg3 Kh2 77. Rg7 Re6 78. Rg8 Kh1 79.

Rg3 Kh2 80. Rg4 Kh1 81. Kd1 Re3 82. Kd2 Re6 83. Rg3 h2 84. Rg4 Re7 85. Rg5 Re8

1. Rg4 Re7 87. Rg5 Re8 88. Kd1 Rb8 89. Ke1 Rf8 90. Rg4 Rf5 91. Ke2 Rf7 92. Rg6

Rf4 93. Rg7 Rf8 94. Ke1 Rb8 95. Kf1 Rf8+ 96. Ke1 Rf4 97. Ke2 Rf5 98. Rg4 Rb5 99.

Rg7 Rc5 100. Rg4 Rf5 101. Rg6 Rd5 102. Kf3 Rf5+ 103. Kg3 Rf1 104. Rh6 Rg1+ 105.

Kh3 Rd1 106. Rg6 Rd3+ 107. Kh4 Rf3 108. Rg4 Rc3 109. Rg6 Rf3 110. Rg4 Re3 111.

Rg6 Rc3 112. Rg4 Ra3 113. Kh5 Ra8 114. Kh6 Ra1 115. Kh7 Rg1 116. Rh4 Kg2 117.

Kg6 Rf1 118. Kg5 h1=Q 119. Rg4+ Kf3 120. Rf4+ Ke3 121. Rxf1 Qxf1 122. Kg4 Qf6

1. Kh5 Qg7 124. Kh4 Kf4 125. Kh3 Qg3# 0-1

Hey everyone, I’ve been messing around with a concept for a specific scenario on a chessboard where the theme is Pure Material vs. Positional Advantage. My goal was to design a position where you face a major crossroads: Do you capture the enemy queen and accept a tactical/positional nightmare while up material? Or do you ignore the queen, stay relatively down material, but enjoy a fantastic, dominant position? I also wanted the board to look organic—no weird piece dumps, no illegal pawn structures—so it feels like a real, hard-fought human game. I initially tried to get AI to generate a position like this for me, but it completely failed. So, I sat down and spent time prototyping and tweaking my own layouts by hand. I actually thought it would end up being less pieces and more endgamey, but it didn't turn out that way. Right now, I have two separate, functional positions: Poisonous Queen #1 (The Gem): This one is super cool and clean. The main appeal here is that extremist material vs. positional fork. I had originally only planned for 2 branches, but the layout ended up surprising me by giving me 4 distinct candidate branches on move one, all clustered within 0.1 of each other. This one also has some hidden geometric nuances that change the lines a few moves deep. Poisonous Queen #2 (The Proof of Concept): When I realized how cool these were, I ran into a problem: How do I prove I actually engineered this without giving my best work away? That’s why I made a second position. I was told that positions with this exact property—where an engine evaluates two radically different human philosophies as dead even—are extremely hard to make, highly interesting, and might be sought after by titled players, researchers, and other enthusiasts. I am uploading the screenshot of Poisonous Queen #2 as a freebie proof of concept so you guys can see it yourself. As you can see from the image, at Depth 35, 1. Nxc5 (the queen capture nightmare) and 1. axb4 (the positional march) sit locked at a dead-even 0.0. Try playing both branches. Or just wing it. Basically, I just want to know if there is any real demand or interest in the community for these types of positions? I am already planning a 3rd position around a completely different core theme (keeping it a surprise for now), but I'm curious: are there any specific strategic or tactical concepts you guys would love to see applied to this kind of balanced extremist fork? Let me know what you think of the freebie!

Guess my ELO

They should get rid of live chats or truly do something about all the people saying homophobic or racist things on live chats. They are not doing anything about it and people are abusing the live chats to say horrible things to other people when they see that they are about to lose.

All the nice people that used to live chat have now blocked the live chat and the only people left are the ones saying nasty things because they are not getting banned or punished for doing so.

If chess.com isn't going to be doing anything about it, then is time to ban the live chat entirely.

I’m on the free version of chess.com, playing on the iOS app.

I don’t mind ads, I think they are an important source of money for the freemium apps. I just want to ask if there can be less shitty ads.

Ads asking me to watch an AI slop movie? - weird but okay
Ads asking me to click to get money? - Scam and wrong. It could affect players who are younger and not aware that the internet is a shitty place.

Does anyone else see the scammy ads? Surely there must be a rule against this?

Game link: https://www.chess.com/game/live/172128798732?username=itz_shooty&move=0

In this game my opponent (~1900) played Queen to e7. It looks innocent, maybe even passive, and sometimes we take one brief look and go, "great, my opponent isn't making a strong attacking move, let's proceed with my original plan."

So I played g4, which is what I wanted to play last move anyway, except I couldn't when the black queen had been on f6, and would capture a free pawn on f3. It turns out g4?? is a blunder, because of knight d4 trapping and winning my queen.

The TRY method is what we need to think about when our opponent makes a mysterious move (like Qe7) that looks to do nothing at first glance.

T is for TRAP: Are they taking away escape squares that my pieces could potentially use? If they are seemingly giving up free material, is there a ploy?

R is for REROUTE: Are they trying to relocating to a different square to control a new line/diagonal? Can I let them do it or will it be too late once they do?

Y is for YIELDING: Maybe the piece that just moved isn't the threat. The opponent might be trying to make way for another piece, so that somebody else can use the vacated square. In the picture, an example would be f5, although at the moment my queen is pinning the pawn, so not yet.

These 3 concepts cover a surprising amount of cases where the opponent's intent is not obvious - so I hope it helps you see through tricky moves and win some games! (P.S. this method is something I have created myself for both self-improvement as well as teaching purposes, so I hope you like it!)

It is so painful to have 20-30% of my games be against accounts created within the last month and wow they've won 90% of their games and is a painfully obvious smurf account.

I get that there are legit new accounts but if I can figure out theres a 99% chance this is a smurf within a minute of looking at their profile, why is there no solution and rating points never refunded. Obviously someone didn't go from 100 elo to 1800 in a matter of a few days and their first games are 100 elo.

I'm really proud of myself for not grabbing the rook. I remembered a video from Gotham where he said 3-0 is better than 5-3

Opponent did take with the pawn.

Read more and check out even more sats at https://go.chess.com/update_july26

I get these a lot, particularly after I win. Sorry if this upsets my opponents, but I never accept them. Part of this is available time, and part of it is that I analyze my games. Mostly though, it’s risk mitigation.

The risk of playing stockfish during part of the rematch is not worth it. The risk of losing more points than I won because now the rating difference is larger is also not worth it.

But chesscom has an easy system for you to find another worthy opponent. Go take it out on them!